Analytical Services
ISI performs several different sorts of services for our clients. We are unique in that, while we have the laboratory to perform the tests you know you want, we will also work with you to help you to understand your problem and find the tests and solutions that you truly need.
Our testing is carried out to meet the international standards (e.g. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Good Laboratory Practice), if required, and all work is conducted under our ISO 9001 umbrella. Our work is fully auditable and legally defensible.
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Research & Development
ISI has the expertise and experience required for performing skillful R&D in the fields of chemistry and biology as well as analytical science in general. We regularly assist clients in the development of customized scientific investigations aimed at providing real and accessible answers to their chemical related problems. Our R&D experience includes literature searches, bench-scale investigations, process improvement plans, analytical method development, preparation & characterization of primary standards, classification of unknowns, full product development and general research into novel chemical methodologies.
Quality Control
Validation Studies
Industry Support
Many industries no longer have a comprehensive in-house laboratory capability. Those businesses with laboratories often do no have the required equipment, expertise or the time to conduct thorough and accurate testing. ISI often collaborates with industrial clients as a part of their on-going projects, filling the knowledge and expertise gap that comes from not having an in-house laboratory or in-house know how. Examples of activities we have performed for industry include standard testing, trouble-shooting, desktop review of previously conducted analytical data/interpretation, experimental design, finished product stability trials, reverse engineering of products, process simulations and pilot scale tests.
Non-Routine Testing
When needed, we have a group of labs and universities with which we consult and contract to perform specialized tests and allow our clients to access research grade instrumentation. We ensure that our client obtains what they need from these third party labs and our chemists have the expertise to know when these specialized analyses are needed and to oversee their execution.
- Forensic Testing & Simulation
Our Forensic Testing & Simulation services include:
· Sample extraction and analysis for the presence and identification of a liquid accelerant
· Laboratory-scale simulations, which can include the re-creation of weather scenarios, study of the effect of combustibles and re-creation of site scenarios to help an expert determine the realiabity of their interpretation
· Classification and identification of unknown samples collected at investigation sites
· Conduct site sampling collection for forensic use and site clean-up acceptance
· Applied environmental forensics to address both causation and accountability in cases of environmental contamination
· Provide sampling kits containing supplies and sampling instructions based on location and sample type for collection of forensic samples.
· Provide interpretation of the results
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